US Army’s Precision Strike Missile breaks range record May 12
Lockheed Martin s PrSM missile was tested for a third time at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on April 30, 2020. (Lockheed Martin) WASHINGTON The U.S. Army’s Precision Strike Missile ranged 400 kilometers roughly 250 miles in a test shot at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on May 12, Lockheed Martin announced. The test marks the farthest the PrSM has flown so far, which is roughly the distance between New York City and Rochester, New York. “We had impressive performance flying more than 400 kilometers in its longest range flown to date at the White Sands Missile Range,” Gaylia Campbell, Lockheed vice president of precision fires and combat maneuver systems, told a group of reporters directly following the test. ”PrSM was fired from a [High Mobility Artillery Rocket System] launcher and it flew with the expected precision to the target area where it once again demonstrated a highly a
Nuclear Notebook: How many nuclear weapons does Russia have in 2021? Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda, March 15, 2021 T his is a very long article. Some introductory bits:
Russia is in the middle of a decades-long modernization of its strategic and nonstrategic nuclear forces to replace Soviet-era weapons with newer systems………
Putin also noted his disappointment with the “deterioration” of the US-Russia arms control regime, and declared that the United States withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and the Open Skies Treaty under “contrived pretexts.”……..
As of early 2021, we estimate that Russia has a stockpile of nearly 4,500 nuclear warheads assigned for use by long-range strategic launchers and shorter-range tactical nuclear forces……
US Says Reviewing Open Skies As Putin Moves To Exit By IBTimes News
on May 12 2021 5:43 AM
The United States said Tuesday it was reviewing the previous administration s withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty as Russia moved formally to leave the post-Cold War accord meant to build trust.
The United States officially left the pact in November after former president Donald Trump s administration said Russia was violating the agreement that allows the two powers and their allies to monitor one another s airspace.
The administration of President Joe Biden said it was taking another look in consultation with US allies. We haven t made a decision on the future of American participation in the Open Skies Treaty. We are actively reviewing matters related to the treaty, State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters.
US is a threat to the survival of global democracy
A screenshot of the Democracy Perception Index 2021.
According to a new poll commissioned by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation among 50,000 respondents in 53 countries, the United States is not fit to present itself as the chief guardian of global democracy. The self-appointed arbiter of righteousness is more of a threat to democracy, economic equality and global health than any other country in the world.
The findings show that nearly half or 44 percent of the respondents in the 53 countries surveyed are concerned that the US continues to threaten democracy in their country. Worse still, the study shows that neither the US nor the G7 can simply assume the mantle of defenders of democracy.
(Stanford University Press).
The recent announcement by the British government that it plans a 40 percent increase in the number of nuclear weapons it possesses highlights the escalation of the exceptionally dangerous and costly nuclear arms race.
After decades of progress in reducing nuclear arsenals through arms control and disarmament agreements, all the nuclear powers are once again busily upgrading their nuclear weapons capabilities. For several years, the U.S. government has been engaged in a massive nuclear “modernization” program, designed to refurbish its production facilities, enhance existing weapons, and build new ones. The Russian government, too, is investing heavily in beefing up its nuclear forces, and in July 2020, President Vladimir Putin announced that the Russian navy would soon be armed with hypersonic nuclear weapons and underwater nuclear drones. Meanwhile, China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea are expanding the size of their nuclear a